Catamenial skirt-protector.



-M. M. KLINE.

GATAMENIAL SKIRT PROTEGTOR.

APPLIUATION FILED DBU. B, 1909.

Patented (m4, 1910.

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CATAMENIAL SKIRT-PROTECTOR.

specinoaaon or Letters Patent.

Application filed December 8, 1909. Serial No. 532,010.

1'0 all 'whom 'it 'may concern: p

Be it lmown that I, MABEL MARIE IILINE, a citizen of the United States,residing in -London, England, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Catamenial Skirt- Protectors, of which the following is aspeciication.

This invention relates to aA catamenial skirt protector to be wornbyWomen, at certain periods, beneath the clothing, over the rear portionof the person. The device is intended to be supplementary to the napkinsor bandages worn at such times,

The object of the invention is eilect-ually to protect the skirt orother wearing apparel from staining in the rear.

The protector is apron-like and embodies a flat pocket of a size fullyto cover the seat, this pocket having its mouth extending across the topthereof and containing a removable impervious sheet of like extent,

which is removably secured by fastening means extending along its top.Suitable means are provided-for supporting the protector in place on thewearer.-

In the accompanying drawings, illustrat ing the preferred embodiment ofthe invention Figure l is a. view shpwing the protector applied to theperson; Fig. 2 is a face view of the protector; Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsection through the pocket andthe contained impervious sheet; and Fig. 4is a face view of the removable impervious sheet;

In these views, the numeral 1 indicates an apron-like protector, 2,supporting means, with the upper preferably a connecte part of theprotector, and 9, fastening devices for holding 'the protectorclose'against the body, such devices preferably being in the nature ofstraps or loops, pro1ecting laterally in opposite directions from thelower part of the pad and designed to fasten to hose-su porters 4, orother anchorage.

The ower and major part of the protector consists'of a flat pocket of asize :fully to cover the seat portion of the wearer. This pocketcomprises walls 6 and 7, secured together at their sides and bottom, asby sewing, leaving a mouth extending across the top of the pocket. Toone of the walls, as 6, may be secured ta. flap 8, -for covering themouth of the oclret.

The r. alle: the pocket, or at least the one next the body, are ofpcrvious materiah'as textile fabric, as is also the part 1l. or theprotector above the pocket, which part rrr-sts Patented oct. 4, 1910.

against the baclr of the wearer. This part .1l may be an extension ofthe wall .6.

4A water-proof sheet 5, as rubber, rubberfaced cloth, water-proof cloth,mackintosh, chamois leather, etc., :is removably located in the pocket,being of substantially the same area. This impervious sheet is readilyand easily inserted through the open top of the pocket, and removedtherethrough to facilitate cleansing of the protector.:

I provide means at the upper edge of. the sheet 5 for removably securingthe sa'ne in the ocket. In the embodiment of the invention illustrated,this means `comprises buttons 3, secured to the sheet along the topthereof, and ada ted to be received in registering button-ho-es 10,formed in the flap 8 and--1n the'wall 7. Fastening devices so positionedhold the sheet 5 in spread out condition, preventing it from folding ordoubling up Iin the pocket. Thusheld, the l y to the prof.

sheet 5 1n turn lendsl someb tector, helping -it to stayin p sition onthe wearer.

A number of apronlike furnished with each removable impervious sheet, sothat the sheet may be removed and placed in a fresh cover or pocketwhenever' desired.

It will be understood that the protectors may be made of differentspecific shapes and dimensions. The device may be worn next the skin ornot as desired. v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

An apron-like catamenial skirt protector adapted to be worn over therear portion'of the person beneath the clothing` comprising a flatpocket of pervious fabric .et a` size fully to cover the seatand havinga month extended across its top. a readily rem:, and replaceableimpervious sheet of like ex tent received within the pocket, fastenersremovably securing the upper edge of said sheet and holding the sheet inthe pocket in spread-out condition, and means for snpporting theprotector in position over the rear portion of the wearer.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presenccof twosubscribingv witnesses.

MABEL MARIE KLINE. vWitnesses:

J`. F. BRANDENBURG, Gr. ROBERT THOMAS.

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